“Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace,” the response began, curtly. “Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state.”

“That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress.”

“Among other things,” Netanyahu reminded Obama, “those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines.”

“Those commitments also ensure Israel’s well-being as a Jewish state by making clear that Palestinian refugees will settle in a future Palestinian state rather than in Israel.”

“Without a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem outside the borders of Israel, no territorial concession will bring peace.”
“Equally, the Palestinians, and not just the United States, must recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people, and any peace agreement with them must end all claims against Israel.”

“Prime Minister Netanyahu will make clear that the defense of Israel requires an Israeli military presence along the Jordan River.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144338

megimoo

05-19-2011, 11:48 PM

It looks like Israel is going to go it alone against the mad Arab hoards .Obama has thrown them under the buss and sided with Hamas and the rest of those who would annihilate Isarel !

megimoo

05-20-2011, 02:31 AM

Obama and Israel, continued

"Who advised Obama to push Israel back to the 1967 boundries ?.."
"Who advised Obama enter into the conflict and to call For a no Fly Zone Over Lybia ? "
"...Samantha Power..."

There has been an awakening in recent days to the presence of a disturbing number of foreign policy advisers to the Obama campaign who harbor hostile views of Israel. Ed Lasky of the American Thinker has been doing serious work on the subject, and his two pieces — here and here — are must-reads. Caroline Glick adds to the discussion here.

But there is another Obama foreign policy adviser–a prominent one–who has so far escaped criticism. This is Samantha Power, a Harvard professor, journalist, and human rights specialist who of late has become a high-profile liberal critic of American foreign policy.

For one, Power is an advocate of the Walt-Mearsheimer view of the American relationship with Israel. In a recent interview published on the Harvard Kennedy School’s website, Power was asked to explain “long-standing structural and conceptual problems in U.S. foreign policy.” She gave a two-part answer: the first problem, she said, is “the US historic predisposition to go it alone.” A standard reply, of course. The second problem, though, should give us pause:

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the “national interest” as a whole is defined and pursued . . . America’s important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

So greater regard for international institutions along with less automatic deference to special interests–especially when it comes to matters of life and death and war and peace–seem to be two take-aways from the war in Iraq.

Power is not just assenting to the Israel Lobby view of American foreign policy, but is also arguing that Israel had something to do with the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003–an appalling slander, and a telling one.

Also of note is a recent opinion piece Power wrote for TIME magazine, titled “Rethinking Iran,” the thrust of which rethinking involves the need to engage diplomatically the mullahs and pretend that the Iranian nuclear program is a figment of the paranoid imagination of the Bush administration.
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Does anyone think that if the time comes that Power has President Obama’s ear, she will advise him to do anything other than repudiate America’s greatest ally in the Middle East in favor of appeasing its greatest enemy? And here’s an even better question: Does Barack Obama have a single adviser who would tell him to do anything else?

And here’s an even better question: Does Barack Obama have a single adviser who would tell him to do anything else?

It doesn't appear that there is anyone holding sway with Obama that stands for the defense of Israel, our long time ally.

My even better question is why do the Jewish people in America continue to vote Democratic and more specifically support Obama? Do they continue their death wish---to be led to the camps? I'm NOT saying Obama is doing that, but the analogy is there.

Why would you support with your votes and your finances someone who does not have your best interest at heart? It's been a puzzlement to me for quite a while.

Arroyo_Doble

05-21-2011, 10:34 AM

It doesn't appear that there is anyone holding sway with Obama that stands for the defense of Israel, our long time ally.

My even better question is why do the Jewish people in America continue to vote Democratic and more specifically support Obama? Do they continue their death wish---to be led to the camps? I'm NOT saying Obama is doing that, but the analogy is there.

Why would you support with your votes and your finances someone who does not have your best interest at heart? It's been a puzzlement to me for quite a while.

If they are voting, I assume they are Americans and so their interests align with the United States, not some other country. If they care more for a foreign nation than their own, they might consider emigrating.

AmPat

05-21-2011, 12:53 PM

If they are voting, I assume they are Americans and so their interests align with the United States, not some other country. If they care more for a foreign nation than their own, they might consider emigrating.

I don't believe anybody here would argue that point. The Jewish voting block here in the US does have an interest in the ONLY Jewish state. That is understandable and a fact. The question stands, why do Jews here in the US overwhelmingly vote for DUmmyRATS every year?